The federal government is working to reopen the port of Baltimore and rebuild the bridge. President Joe Biden has vowed to allocate federal funding and resources to meet these goals. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg on March 27 outlined four key goals to reopen the port of Baltimore and rebuild the bridge using federal funds.
A federal judge in New York is ordering the unsealing of court documents that will reveal several names of Jeffrey Epstein’s associates. Nearly 130 people have died in the mountains of northwest China after a strong earthquake shook the region overnight, marking the country’s deadliest quake in nine years. The 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit just […]
Congressional lawmakers, led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), were in Yuma, Arizona, Thursday. What did lawmakers discover about the local community? And why did Democrats decide not to go? Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Thursday visited East Palestine, Ohio, for the first time since the train derailment. What does he say about his absence and […]
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg holds a press conference on the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, on Thursday. He criticized the Trump administration and promised more regulations of train companies.
Nearly three weeks after a toxic train derailment upended life in the village of East Palestine, Ohio, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg made his first visit to the community to meet with those affected on Thursday, Feb. 23, promising accountability and higher safety standards. Noting that the National Transportation Security Board released its preliminary findings on […]
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg tours the Ohio derailment site with federal officials on Thursday, one day after former President Donald Trump’s visit. Joined by representatives from the Federal Railroad Administration and Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Buttigieg tours the crash scene and speaks with local officials.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will visit East Palestine, Ohio, on Thursday, Feb. 23—nearly three weeks after a Norfolk Southern train derailed there leaking toxic chemicals into the community. Earlier this week, Buttigieg demurred on announcing a specific date and time for a visit, telling reporters only that he was planning to do so “when the […]
Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Tuesday that he is “planning to go” to East Palestine, Ohio, amid criticism that top Biden officials have not visited the village after a toxic train derailment earlier this month. “I am planning to go and our folks were on the ground from the first hours,” Buttigieg told […]
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has broken his silence on the disastrous derailment of a train in Ohio that released a toxic chemical, sparking health concerns. The fiery crash in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 3 involved about 50 cars, with some carrying hazardous materials, including the highly flammable chemical vinyl chloride. The dangerous toxin was […]
Connecting Philadelphia and Washington by rail for the first time, the Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel opened when Ulysses S. Grant was president. That was 1873 and now, 150 years later, the passageway that runs under Baltimore neighborhoods is a bottleneck that will be refurbished with funding from the $1 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Job Acts […]
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said his agency isn’t ruling out the possibility of “nefarious activity” being behind a computer outage that grounded all U.S. flights on Wednesday. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which is overseen by Buttigieg’s agency, halted all domestic flights on Wednesday after the Notice to Air Missions system that relays real-time flight […]
Top Biden administration official Pete Buttigieg on July 10 defended protesters harassing Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at a restaurant in Washington. “Look, when public officials go into public life, we should expect two things. One, that you should always be free from violence, harassment, and intimidation. And two, you’re never going to be free […]
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg informed travelers about how to get refunds amid hundreds of cancellations and thousands of delays in flights across the United States ahead of July 4. According to airline tracking service FlightAware.com, as of Saturday, over 5,800 flights were delayed in the United States, including those in and out of the country. There […]
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said that the federal government may take action against airlines on consumers’ behalf amid numerous flight cancellations in recent weeks, including more than 2,000 that were canceled on Saturday and Sunday morning. “That is happening to a lot of people, and that is exactly why we are paying close attention here […]
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is expected to provide testimony this week at a hearing set by the Surface Transportation Board (STB) on urgent issues in freight rail service. The STB said hearings will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday on recent rail service problems and recovery efforts involving several Class I carriers. Freight rail companies […]
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Sunday said that supply chain issues impacting industries across the globe could continue to play out for as long as the COVID-19 pandemic. “Look, there are so many things that are still happening in our economy—distortions, disruptions, things in our supply chain that are affecting prices that are clearly a direct consequence […]
The disruptions that are currently snarling supply chains across the globe and the United States will “certainly” continue into next year, said Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Sunday. Last week, some industry groups and companies said that the White House won’t be able to alleviate supply shortages and bottlenecks before Christmas arrives, potentially causing more […]
